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Consolidated Irrigation District April 11, 2018
Central Kings GSAConsolidated Irrigation District
Manager of Flood Operations and Maintenance – Kings River Conservation District
The Consolidated Irrigation District's board of directors met at its Selma headquarters on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Selma is almost due south of my house, so I usually take back roads to get off of Highway 99. At the intersection of Jensen and McCall there is a big PG&E substation. Just north of this is a farm house. It has two tall flag poles and I noticed today there were two US flags. In the past I've seen a US flag and a Japanese battle flag – the kind with the rising sun used in WWII. It makes me wonder.
Chairman Larry Cruff called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm and there were no public comments or deletions from the agenda. Nor were there any conflicts of interest. The minutes were approved and under accounts payable. CID General Manager Phil Desatoff reported on some serious trouble averted with the automated water works. The mother boards of the controllers were faulty and Desatoff told the board it is possible to get the $20,000 spent on consultants to get things working. I've been hearing there is such a thing as an electronic kill switch. The warranty of CID's gear was three years. It died at three-years and one month. Ouch. Cruff asked Water Master/Superintendent Walt Frost about Gar Tootelian Inc.'s service. GTI provides CID's chemical needs. Frost said the service is very good and they stand behind their advice. He said CID doesn't apply chemicals without GTI's advice. I believe that helps keep the district in compliance and out of court. Finally, the board approved travel expenses for Desatoff to attend the next ACWA meeting.
Desatoff gave the water report. If I understood correctly CID has enough supplies at Pine Flat Lake to run 41 days at 1,400 cfs. That equals a little more than 114,000 a/f. The Lone Tree portion of the district can run its 16,000 a/f plus for 103 days. Director Earl Hudson said he'd rather have ditch deliveries in August and pump earlier in the season. Desatoff said Freson Irrigation District is getting ready to start deliveries and part of the conveyance is much easier if CID runs at the same time.
SGMA was next and Desatoff said he's seen a rough draft of the GSP triggered Prop 218 Election materials. Attorney Lauren Layne said if the engineers report can be adopted in May and the public hearing can be held in the July meeting. Provost & Pritchard are conducting the engineering report for the 218 evidence. There needs to be meetings throughout the district to help get a majority vote drummed up. This vote, if the 218 wins, has to be completed within enough time for Fresno County to incorporate the increased assessment the tax role. Cruff was concerned the time may be too tight and wants to see the draft. Desatoff said there could be a special meeting to approve the engineer's report. The board liked that. The board is interested in hiring a consultant to help educate the public. The special meeting is tentatively scheduled in two weeks. Layne also updated the board that a MOA on coordination in the Kings River Sub Basin is in development.
Desatoff said CID is being asked to approve all the designs for High Speed Rail crossings over its canals. He said the district's requests for HSR to purchase land for the dirt. Afterwards the hole in the grounds can be used for recharge. However, HSR has found cheap dirt, $.50/yard next door to the district. Cruff pointed out HSR has more than one story out there. Evidently the authorities in charge have decreed the train needs to go another 25 miles faster and that changes the design which changes the need for dirt. The meeting then went into closed session at 1:50 pm. At 2:00 pm the closed session ended, and Layne announced the district sold a house it owns for a fair price.
The Central Kings Groundwater Sustainability Agency came to order at 2:05 pm. Under public comments Amanda Monaco, she is representing the Leadership Council, a NGO with the word justice in its title seeking letters of recommendation for grants to fund outreach for SGMA education to disadvantaged communities. Hylon Kaufman showed up representing Ranch Systems. Ranch Systems manufacturers telemetry devices and a supporting cloud based platform used to provide monitoring and control automation for agriculture and water management. It's being used by the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Authority that's located somewhere in Ventura County.
Desatoff said there is a MOA, as mentioned earlier today, to help with coordination between the Kings Sub Basin GSAs. The steps are: a dispute will be presented to all the GSAs in the sub basin, if there doesn't help it goes to a team of mediators and if that doesn't work it goes to court. Layne added this is only for technical disputes. There is a DWR grant to fund this and that is being administered by the North Fork Kings GSA.
Desatoff said there are five proposals of varying degrees of sanity. Some of them are: Split all the water between everyone – which he considered a non-starter. Another proposal was to measure the water table with groundwater outflow to determine overdraft and yield. The most recent methodology is to look at cropping patterns, determine the evapotranspiration and figure the rates from there. But there are other variables to be considered. Desatoff believe CID overdrafts 20,000 a/f per year if I understood. The McMullin Area GSA has rejected fallowing and land retirement and that changes and challenges the process. The folks in the NFKGSA are concerned about deep aquifer issues dependent on Westlands WD pumping. Desatoff said solving the shallow aquifer may be easier with Westlands issues taking longer There's about eight months left to come together and develop a GSP. Desatoff said the final methodology must be scientifically sound, but also reasonable. The internal deadline for a GSP of the Kings Sub Basin is January 2019 so there is a year to wrestle with the DWR for January 2020 SGMA deadline. Desatoff said most of the issues are agreed upon but the big question is how to share the overdraft.
There needs to be public outreach meetings for the Central Kings GSA. Desatoff said these meetings could be held in conjunction with the 218 meetings. Layne said other GSAs in the sub basin have used NGOs to help. This led to a discussion about how combining the two messages could confuse portions of the overlapping audiences of disadvantaged communities and growers. The proposed 218 fee will double the CID assessment to $54 per acre. However, this is a limited term arrangement. Each year for 10-years CID will purchase 50 acres and eventually, provided it rains the
district will have 500 additional acres of recharge and should be sustainable. Mel Lubisich was at the meeting. He's Vice President of Farm Lands for Pearson Realty and recommended investigating offering leases for recharge. In his experience there are folks who won't sale. Land values could drop due to SGMA further eroding the motivation to sell. Board seemed to think this a good idea. And that was that.
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CONSOLIDATED IRRIGATION DISTRICT – 2255 Chandler St, Selma, CA 93662 Telephone; 559/896-1660
CID covers 145,000 acres mostly in South Central Fresno County. Surface water supplies: Kings River CID is its own GSA
General Manager – Phil Desatoff, Attorney – Doug Jensen, Water Master – Walt Frost, Controller – Margaret Macias
Board of Directors – President Larry Cruff, Thomas Benzler, Earl Hudson, Tony Lewis, Ray Moles
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More parents are taking up the Government offer of 30 hours of free childcare a week.
Latest figures show that in the most recent autumn term 1,107 children had taken up places, an increase of 29 per cent on the previous year.
A Department for Education survey found that 19 per cent of families found it difficult or very difficult to pay for childcare. A fifth of parents did not realise that additional charges for meals, nappies and some activities could be made by childcare providers under the 30 hours scheme.
Pre-school Learning Alliance chief executive Neil Leitch said: "We know from a study the Government itself commissioned, for example, that over half of parents accessing 30 hours said they had to pay charges for additional items or activities.
The 30-hours entitlement doubled the hours of free childcare for some parents. All parents are entitled to 570 hours a year but this was increased to 1,140 for some – the equivalent of 30 hours over 38 weeks of the standard school year. Parents can spread fewer hours over more weeks.
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BELLE PLAINE: Robert L. "Bob" Schwab, 92 died Thursday, November 22, 2018 at Belle Plaine Specialty Care in Belle Plaine.
BELLE PLAINE: Robert L. "Bob" Schwab, 92 died Thursday, November 22, 2018 at Belle Plaine Specialty Care in Belle Plaine. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM, Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at Phillips Funeral Home, 92 5th Avenue, Keystone with Don Drahos officiating. Visitation will be from 9 AM until service time also at the funeral home. Interment will be in Irving Cemetery will full military honors conducted by the Keystone American Legion. The family requests no flowers or memorial contributions.
Bob was born July 2, 1926 in Vinton, the son of Henry and Alvena (Schluntz) Schwab. Bob attended Belle Plaine Schools and served his country in the United States Navy during World War II. He married Sara Carbaugh in 1950 and they later divorced.
Bob was a lifelong farmer and owner/operator of Bob Schwab Building Service from the 1960's until 2017. Bob, escorted by his son, Joe, was able to participate in the October 2017 Iowa Honor Flight to Washington D.C. He was a member of the VFW and a 74 year member of the American Legion Post of Keystone.
He is survived by his children, Joe Schwab, Terry (Denise) Schwab all of Belle Plaine, Karla (Robert) Mall of Augusta, Georgia and Lisa (John) Blabaum of Liscomb; his six grandchildren; three great grandchildren with one more on the way; two step grandchildren and eight step great grandchildren.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Charles and Wayne Schwab and his sister, Evelyn Novak.
Condolences may be left at: www.phillipsfuneralhomes.com.


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When Is a Banana Like the Stock Market?
Adrian Ash
Bullion Vault
Published : December 12th, 2019
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When it's stuck to a wall with duct tape...
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First, get yourself a roll of duct tape. Shiny grey is best.
Next, get a bunch of bananas. Deep yellow for preference, but unripe and green means your gift will last a little longer.
If the tape costs more than $5...or the bananas over $1.50...then you're spending way too much.
Next, cut off a piece of tape...
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That's it. You're done!
You have created your very own work of art, exactly like the sensational 'Comedian' by fun-loving Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan!
Here's one I made earlier. Or maybe it's the original. Who can tell?
This headline-hitting piece retails for $120,000.
At least 2 museums paid that much each apparently...
...and Cattelen wanted $150,000 for the third edition of this series...
...until another side-splitting "artist" picked it off the wall and ate it.
But you can create this very same piece of art yourself at home right now...
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Funny, right? Cattelan himself is widely known for his sense of humour...
...far funnier than Banksy with his blunt two-fingers to idiot collectors (one 'moron' spent £1.1m in September, just so that Banksy could use that very word to describe them) and with much more skill...
...creating such laugh-along chin-strokers as putting a live donkey beneath a chandelier in 1994...
...or putting Pope John Paul II under a meteorite in 1997's 'La Nona Hora'...
...before putting my personal favourite, the eerie 'Others', on rooftops and window ledges across the Venice Biennale in 2011...
...before, of course, casting a toilet from solid 18-carat gold and calling it 'America'.
The golden toilet became the butt of jokes about Donald Trump in his first year as President. Here in 2019 it is pranking the UK's own Keystone Cops, with the British police trying but failing to recover it after September's stunning theft from Blenheim Palace.
Unlike that multi-million dollar piece however, 'Comedian' squashes everything the art world and its assorted hangers-on love into just a few pennies.
Everything being irony...the first and last refuge of those who worry they missed life's punchline...or worse still, are its unwitting target.
"Don't make fun of the $120,000 banana – it's in on the joke" says one hack, protesting too loudly.
"Maurizio Cattelan is more than a prankster," says another, "and 'Comedian' – his potassium-rich latest work – is more than an overpriced piece of fruit."
See? They get it. Don't you? How awful to be left out!
But "The banana," claims Cattelan himself, "is supposed to be a banana."
Not Magritte's pipe then, nor R.Mutt's urinal. Except that the artist is wrong, says yet another critic.
"I have been dismayed to discover that for a work that has been endlessly photographed and parodied over the course of its one-week life, almost nobody has discussed that it is not just 'a banana'," spits the NY Times review.
"It is a banana and a piece of duct tape, and this is a significant difference."
Hahahaha! What priceless comedy. Well, almost.
"The artist and the gallerist arrived at the $120,000 price after several discussions," gushes ArtNet, "trying to strike a balance between an insignificant number that would trivialize the work, and an outlandish one that would be completely ridiculous."
"With its simple composition," adds Miami Beach gallery Art Basel, removing the piece from display to generate a few million more internet clicks, "'Comedian' ultimately offered a complex reflection of ourselves."
Dare to look in the mirror, dear investor?
Because we've clearly all gone bananas too.
"Global debt on track to exceed $255 trillion in 2019," says the Institute of International Finance.
Like an artist charging $120,000 for a banana (plus tape), you can't blame the borrowers...
...not with interest rates near, at, or even below zero.
But the lenders? What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?
US equities have meantime risen in 7 of last 10 years...
...setting a run of all-time record highs as New Year 2020 draws near.
Yet a third of S&P 500 companies have posted a year-on-year decline in earnings in 2019, as the Wall Street Journal notes.
"The last times the share of companies posting contracting earnings was that high: 2009, 2008 and 2002, all periods when the broader economy plus the stock market were in decline."
Hence today's stretched price/earnings ratio, now roundabout twice its historic average...
...with Corporate America costing 33 years' earnings to buy, instead of the more usual 17x earnings on the Shiller CAPE measure of value (or 36 years against the average of 20x on Robert Shiller's new 'total returns' version).
There's nothing to stop P/E ratios rising still further of course. Not apart from a mass moment of clarity hitting investors. Or the roll of duct tape running out before valuations are suspended still higher. And like every other market top, chasing prices higher is all part of the fun in this record-breaking super-soaraway equity bull.
Indeed, 2019's most ironic giggle may have come this September, when French-Israeli squillionaire Patrick Drahi paid a 61% premium to buy auction-house Sotheby's and take it private, delisting the art world's only publicly-traded venue from the stock market entirely.
Again, you can't blame the sellers. Drahi's offer, said Sotheby's chairman approvingly, "delivers a significant premium to market for our shareholders, including our employee shareholders."
But the buyer? Art markets tend to bubble most just before wider asset-price slumps begin. And drawing a line to link the tops in Sotheby's stock from the 1989 Japan Bubble's peak to the Tech Bubble top 10 years later and then to the Global Banking Bubble's last gasp of 2008, "If there is another bubble, a peak at $75 might be a reasonable guess for Sotheby's," reckoned investment bank and advisory Evercore back in 2015.
As it was, Drahi paid $57 per share to take NYSE: BID off the stock market this year.
Back to watching modern art prices then. You might have a little while yet before your retirement savings rot or get eaten as this bananas bubble bursts.
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Man charged in Lansing Twp. homicide to stand trial
Matt Mencarini
MASON - A 25-year-old man charged with murder in Lansing Township's only 2017 homicide can stand trial, a judge ruled.
Juwan Deshawn Williams is charged with murder, armed robbery and two weapons charges in connection with the killing of 47-year-old Bruce Benson.
Williams faces up to life in prison if convicted.
In April, Benson was found dead in a Lansing Township apartment in the 400 block of North Rosemary Avenue after neighbors called police to report loud noises, police said at the time.
Williams was charged in November and a judge denied bond. Online court records don't list a place of residence for Williams.
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Related:Police investigate Lansing Twp. homicide
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4 Days Only: Buy Mileage Plus Miles And Earn Up To A 60k Mile Bonus!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Mar 28, 2018 | Featured, Mileage Plus, Uncategorized, United |
United has launched a quick Mileage Sale that lasts until March 31. With this version of the sale, you can earn up to a bonus of 60,000 additional miles based on how many miles you buy.
The bracket for the bonus miles is as follows:
Buy between 5,000 and 14,000 miles and you'll earn an additional 20% in miles.
Buy between 15,000 and 29,000 miles and you'll earn an additional 40% in miles.
Buy 90,000 miles and receive 60,0000 bonus miles.
Please remember that you can only buy 150,000 miles per account per calendar year. Any bonus miles received during this kind of sale counts towards the 150,000 limit.
Recently, I've noticed better award inventory for Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian, and Brussels operated flights, so a deal like this might be worth taking advantage of if your looking for a great way to fly to Europe or beyond.
United MileagePlus Sale: Up To 75% Bonus Miles + Chance To Win 1,000,000 Miles!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured, Mileage Plus, United |
United has launched a miles sale promo for MileagePlus members that will award you with up to 75% more miles when you purchase miles for your account.
The promo is tiered so the more miles you purchase the better the bonus becomes. In addition to the bonus, you'll get 1 or 2 entries into a contest that will award its winner 1,000,000 miles which is plenty for a few First Class roundtrips on Lufthansa!
The brackets break down as follows:
If you buy between 5,000 and 14,000 miles, you'll get a 25% miles bonus and 1 entry into the sweepstakes.
If you buy between 15,000 and 29,000 miles you'll get a 50% miles bonus and 1 entry into the sweepstakes.
If you buy between 30,000 and 85,000 miles you'll earn a 75% miles bonus and 2 entries into the sweepstakes.
In doing the math you'll pay about 2.8 cents per mile (CPM) if you buy between 5,000 and 14,000 miles (plus 25% bonus). Buying between 15,000 and 29,000 miles (plus 50% bonus) will give you a CPM of 2.3 cents. Buying over 30,000 miles (plus 50% bonus) will net you a cost of 2 cents per mile.
The promo is set to expire on March 9, 2018. You can buy 150,000 miles per year per Mileage Plus account, and the miles you buy do not count towards status attainment.
Mileage Plus CYBER TUESDAY Deal: 100% More Miles on Purchases of 20,000 Or More Miles
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 28, 2017 | Featured, Mileage Plus, United |
Mileage Plus has launched a quick, 24 hour 'Cyber Tuesday' deal for miles for their members.
Until midnight tonight, anyone that buys at least 20,000 miles for their Mileage Plus account will be credited with a 100% bonus. Usually the 100% bonus is reserved for higher amounts, but not in this case.
At the 20,000 mile threshold, it will cost $700.00 for the miles. With the 100% credit, you'll wind up paying only 1.75 cents per mile. The cost per mile stays the same once you are at the 20k breakpoint. There are no further CPM discounts for higher mile amounts.
If you buy between 5000 and 9000 miles, you'll get a 40% bonus, and if you buy between 10,000 and 19,000 miles you'll get a 60% bonus.
Remember, the deal ends tonight at midnight.
Miles & More Members: 20,000 Miles for 1.5 Cents Per Mile……
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 25, 2017 | Featured, Miles & More, Points/Miles |
Normally, it's quite hard to find a good Miles & More deal for earning miles that doesn't involve flying anywhere. However, when these rare non-flight related deals come up, they're usually quite good.
That's the case at the moment.
getAbstract has long been a partner of Miles & More and typically provides a deal where you get 15,000 miles for signing up for their 'Pro' Subscription. Until November 30th, they've sweetened the deal and will award you 20,000 miles for signing up.
What is getAbstract?
Call it ' Cliffs Notes ' for adults. It is a service that provides executive summaries for thousands of books across the non-fiction space including Business, History, Self-Improvement, Biographies, etc.etc. Using their app or desktop you can easily access their library no matter where you are.
It's actually a useful program whose benefits I think may even out weigh the value of the miles that you'll receive.
The cost of the subscription is $299/year so when doing the math, it distills down to 1.495 cents per mile. I've been hard pressed to find anything that comes close to getting this many miles in one deal for such a low cost. Considering 'Meilenschnappchen' deals let you redeem Economy roundtrips for 30,000 miles or 55,000 miles for Business Class Roundtrips between the USA and Europe, getting 20,000 miles for only $299 works out quite nicely.
The deal for the 20,000 miles expires on November 30, at which point the offer will probably revert back to only getting 15,000 miles.
If you do decide to sign up, here's a tip:
Normally, getAbstract gives you a 30 day money back guarantee period which delays your miles from crediting until after 30 days. However, if you email them asking them to waive the return period, they'll credit your miles within a few days.
To learn more about the deal, please visit the getAbstract promo on the Miles & More website. Scroll down to the bottom of that page and you'll see the ad box showing an additional 5k miles bonus being advertised.
Mileage Plus Sale: Up To 100% Bonus Miles & Chance To Win 250k Miles + Other Mile Prizes!!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 24, 2017 | Featured, Mileage Plus, Sweepstakes, United |
United has launched their latest Mileage Plus sale offering up to a 100% bonus when you purchase between 50,000 and 75,000 miles.
The tiers for this sale are as follows:
Buy between 5,000 and 19,000 miles and get 25% more miles.
Buy between 20,000 and 29,000 miles and get 50% more miles.
Buy between 50,000 and 75,000 miles and get 100% more miles.
For this promo, buying 75,000 miles will cost $2625 and you'll get another 75,000 miles which means you'll wind up paying only 1.75 cents per mile which is about as good a deal as you'll ever find. Taxes may take the CPM up a bit, but it is still among the best deals that United has offered in a long time.
You can buy up 150,000 miles a year per account. Bonus miles count towards the 150k maximum.
As far as the contest is concerned, if you buy miles, you'll be entered into a drawing that will award 5 prizes. The Grand Prize is 250k miles. Second place gets 100k miles, and 3 other winners will each win 50,000 miles. Obviously the miles won from the contest will not count against the 150k maximum miles that can be purchased for an account.
No Purchase is necessary to enter the contest. Directions for entering the contest are included in the Official Rules.


Serie A new boys Benevento have officially signed Salernitana forward Massimo Coda.
The well-travelled 28-year-old made the move for an undisclosed fee.
He joined Salernitana as a free agent in the summer of 2015 when Parma went bankrupt.
Coda scored 16 goals with eight assists in 40 Serie B games for Salernitana last season.
Benevento earned their surprise promotion via the play-offs and it'll be their first ever top flight campaign.
They make the step up along with Spal and Hellas Verona.


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I find it very odd to be reading about hell in the news, in a story surrounding Donald Tusk of the EU saying: "I've been wondering what a special place in hell looks like for people who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely". It has been rattling around the newspapers and social media sites on the internet, and has caused quite a sensation – in a world we would have thought had no interest in religious notions thought to have disappeared from modernity. The quote seems quite reasonable when faced with a political situation in the UK that is trying to make itself seem irrational and almost insane. The biblical and mythological notion of hell, Hades, Shoah, any number of names, still means something to our contemporaries, whether it be the traditional religious imagery of fires and torture chambers – or the idea of a person so closed in on himself that he becomes his own hell.
Here is an excellent blog article on the "hell" question among others – Britain in a tailspin. The man who runs this blog Chris Grey seems to have the qualifications to know what he's talking about.
It does look as if our political figures are writhing around in agony, clutching at straws and fraught with delusions. Some journalists are astute enough to see the mal du siècle, not as a problem of the Irish backstop or other obstacles to the great new future of flying unicorns (another popular image from mythology) as something existential at the level of a nation or the current state of disillusionment in the western world. At less than two months from the date of Brexit (29th March), we all experience a feeling of anxiety, dread and revulsion. These feelings are multiplied by the prospects of a catastrophe falling on the UK, something akin to what happens in the event of a declaration of war like in September 1939. There is no need to list them here.
It is another element attesting the relevance of Romanticism in this early twenty-first century like two hundred years ago. We live in an era of Angst, of dread and unrelieved revulsion as the clock ticks and we await the prison Governor, the chaplain and the hangman. One supreme expression of this dread is the Dies irae in the Catholic Mass for the Dead. We fear the unknown, be it a future disembodied life that we can't imagine or utter annihilation and disfigurement. I find it ironic that the flagship newspaper of "leavers" in the UK, the Daily Express, constantly refers to prophecies, conspiracy theories and everything that flies in the face of modern rationalism.
This theme of dread was as present in the age of Romanticism as when medieval friars and monks sang the newly composed Dies irae. We find it in the legend of Frankenstein as in Byron's Darkness. The history of Christianity is profoundly marked by its alternation between eschatology and the Church by Law Established in Christendom. The UK has not lived in a state of dread since World War II and moments during the Cold War era. As a small boy in the years following the Cuban Missile Crisis, I had nightmares about atomic bombs and all the dreadful ideas that filtered to me as my parents listened to the radio and watched television. Apart from that, our life in western Europe and the UK has been calm and routine. If something has been dreaded, the endgame never played out. Nothing was ever resolved.
Dread is not simply fear, but looking forward with anxiety, almost relishing the moment of resolution as when a condemned criminal faces execution. The famous novel of Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, has left a lasting impression on me. Dread sometimes goes in a pair with the nihilistic lust for annihilation. This novel intertwines a number of themes, fear and fanaticism among others like lust for the flesh, knowledge or even death. Lust and addiction become subjects of fanaticism, and people take themselves too seriously. When we go down that road, we live in fear and dread of something that will overturn our certitudes. Eco introduced humour and satire as the antidote to such fanaticism. The book by Aristotle had to be kept hidden because it gave legitimacy to humour.
Dread is our state of fear when we think about the future. Another element in this future is inevitability. We are up against something much stronger than ourselves, invincible and all-powerful. This is the case with death, but also with other events of our lives. It is interesting to note that much of the Christian tradition of asceticism has been dread-based. The Dies irae is an example, as are many texts from the middle-ages like sermons, books of devotion, allegorical poems and others. Dread is an emotion that can be easily used to control people through obedience. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, as we read in the Psalms.
Søren Kierkegaard's Begrebet Angest (1844) translated as The Concept of Anxiety or The Concept of Dread is a masterpiece on this subject. We find fear distinguished from anxiety because fear has a defined object, like being on the edge of a cliff or a tall building. On the other hand, dread or anxiety comes into play when we are responsible for our future through free will. Fear becomes dread when the person feels an impulse to throw himself off the cliff: it is an act of the free will. This fact of being able to choose causes us to dread. This is one of the greatest paradoxes of freedom. Kierkegaard had a most interesting theory of original sin in that Adam's choice came from free choice. He would have suffered anxiety from this freedom and God's commandment that he should not eat from the tree. Anxiety preceded the sin. The same anxiety is also a way to salvation, and becomes a signal of our freedom, self-awareness and responsibility. Only through experiencing anxiety do we become aware of our potential and true identity. Kierkegaard seems to have well understood the meaning of this emotion from the middle-ages to the Romantic era in philosophy, literature and theology. The meaning of dread began to be banalised in the nineteenth century in popular literature and entertainment. Our present use of the word dreadful is synonymous with very bad or serious, with terrible, frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire, etc. For example, "Come quickly, because X has had a dreadful accident". It reminds me of the way some people, especially Americans, use the word awesome in a meaning other than awe-inspiring.
It seems to be more or less in the Romantic period that this word was in transition. Anxiety is nowadays usually the word given to describe a medical condition akin to depression. It is something I often feel without any rational basis. Certainly this consideration of freedom or choice is one of many keys to understanding this emotion and its basis in the sub-consciousness. Anxiety is one of the symptoms of Aspergers / autism (no, I am not "self-diagnosed") and it can be quite debilitating at times. Doctors talk of panic attacks, and they can be completely baseless in terms of the normal reaction to a situation of danger. Pills from a doctor can help when it gets really bad! Thus anxiety is both a normal reaction to danger and something abnormal arising from some pathology.
I have read in some of the Facebook groups set up to help UK citizens living in Europe that some suffer from extreme anxiety because of the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and they don't have all the paperwork needed to obtain settled status. It is not always easy to help, because many of the worries are unjustified or irrational. Nevertheless, the British Government is responsible for widespread human suffering, not to mention the effect on business and civil order, tolerance for foreigners and the general sliding of popular values into some kind of "acquired psychopathy" or ponerisation. These will certainly be considerations in a future court of law when our rogue politicians are brought to justice.
Finally, to get our own dread and Angst into perspective, there is a new Guardian article, A no-deal Brexit won't result in a siege. The EU will be more clinical than that by Tom Kibasi. What this article basically says is that if a no-deal Brexit occurs, the consequences will not be dramatic as we currently imagine. First of all, the stories of chlorinated chicken and the health system going "American", among others, are coming from the Government. It is a crude propaganda trick to force through a botched deal or even to call off Brexit altogether whilst controlling damage to political institutions. We members of the general public are the last to know about anything, and no one is going to tell us anything secret!
According to this article, dystopia just isn't going to happen. Our anxiety is wrongly placed. If no-deal Brexit goes through, we might not even notice anything in the short term. I would be totally unjustified in fearing that I would not get to my Church's Diocesan Synod because of the roads being gridlocked or ferries not running. I can travel between the UK and France because I have my British passport to go one way and my Carte de Séjour for getting back as more than a three-month tourist.
What would happen, according to Mr Kibasi, is that the EU would begin to eat the UK from within. Very rapidly, food prices would rise sharply as the pound sterling slumps. Living standards will go down radically. The EU would continue to open new opportunities for business outside the UK and would increasingly dismantle the country's industry.
The problem with abandoning the rules of the international order is that you no longer enjoy their protection.
The UK would find it increasingly difficult to sell goods and services. Without earning the same amount of money as before, buying power goes down. The country was already weakened in the Thatcher era as manufacturing was run down. The EU can simply put exorbitant tariffs on British export goods to recover the £39 billion outstanding. One truly dreadful consequence would be the lot of the poorest and most vulnerable. Famine, as usual in history, would be a factor in a possibility of revolution.
Supposing it all goes belly-up, my speculation is no better than anyone else's. The political establishment has to implode and be replaced by something else. Aren't we then going to be anxious about lots of foreign people coming in and feeding off our welfare state taking our jobs and driving up housing prices? I have no answers of my own, apart from my being less willing to believe everything I read on alt-right websites and Facebook one-liners. Whatever happens, we are faced with our own freedom, as persons and as societies, and we are responsible for our future and our present.
For our dread and anxiety, we can find peace through spiritual means, and through medicine if our suffering is acute. We need to be as self reliant as possible. I do hope that our present crisis, however it turns out, will spur us to seek to be whole human beings, free from lust, fanaticism and ideology – transformed by faith, reason and humanity. We need to read more and be less reliant on newspapers, television and social media. We need to study philosophy and discuss serious things with other people. Having our beliefs challenged is salutary, because it brings us to seek a new wholeness and sense of identity. Accepting challenge will give us the ability to be critical and make more right free choices. This is the drama of conversion, not only to a religion, but to one's deepest self.
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Western RPGs have seemingly overtaken the RPG genre with titles like Mass Effect, Skyrim, Fallout, and The Witcher 3. Despite this though, there have been a number of incredible Japanese RPGs that have come out in the last decade. The dichotomy between the two halves of the genre is what inspired us to put together a list of the top 5 RPGs of the last decade. Some may surprise you, some may confuse you, some may enrage you, but these are five of the best RPGs of this generation.
Top 5 RPGs of the Last Decade — 5. Bravely Default
Bravely Default was originally intended to be an installment in the Final Fantasy franchise until the development team wanted to do something original, establishing a new brand. The end result is Bravely Default. It is Final Fantasy without the Final Fantasy name and has memorable characters, an intriguing story, wonderful music, an endearing art style, and an extensive job system with turn-based combat. It is filled to the brim with content and will quench any gamer's RPG cravings.
Top 5 RPGs of the Last Decade — 4. Fallout 4
The Fallout series has become revered as one of the best franchises in recent memory ever since Bethesda took over development of the franchise. While both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas were wonderful additions to the series, Fallout 4 is by far the best. It has a fascinating narrative, the freedom of exploration due to its open-world nature, improved combat from earlier entries in the franchise, and a plethora of content that can keep you busy for hundreds of hours. For Western RPG fans, it's a dream come true..
Top 5 RPGs of the Last Decade — 3. Final Fantasy XIII-2
This choice may surprise some people, and it may enrage others. Final Fantasy XIII was a divisive entry in the series due to its linear nature and over-pretentious mythology, half of which you had to read through a codex. Final Fantasy XIII-2 fixed so many of XIII's problems and was a masterpiece in its own right. From the non-linear nature of the story, the time travel aspect, strong protagonists, and incredible music, Final Fantasy XIII-2 established its own identity with its own set of characters, setting it apart from Final Fantasy XIII and simply being a "sequel." The combat, while similar to XIII's, was tweaked and lightning paced, making for a really enjoyable and rewarding experience. All-in-all, it is the best Final Fantasy game since X, and maybe even before that.
Top 5 RPGs of the Last Decade — 2. The Mass Effect Trilogy
Bioware is one of the most successful developers in the business, and when they took on Mass Effect, they created a space opera that would go down in the ages as one of the best series' of all time. The sheer scope of the mythology and the amount of creativity that went into crafting it is nothing short of astounding. The characters are both likable and memorable, and each entry in the series has its own flavor to it and improves upon the previous game. The ability to shape Shepard's character through choices was, at the time, revolutionary with regards to how the choices did in fact carry over into the subsequent games. This could only go so far, but it was the first of its kind. While some were upset with the ending, Shepard's journey was a miraculous adventure full of adventure, sorrow, and ultimately self-sacrifice.
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Tripping up in the footsteps of Oscar Wilde
To the End of the World – Travels with Oscar Wilde, by Rupert Everett (Little, Brown/ Jonathan Ball)
If ever you've thought of making a feature film – and you probably haven't – sit down quietly until the urge passes.
I know a bit of what I'm talking about: my nephew has produced two films (one of them, Flatland, a Western set in the Karoo, is currently on circuit) and found the experience exhausting, expensive and frequently heartbreaking.
But if you really want to know what it's like, read Rupert Everett's To the End of the World, a 10-year quest to make a movie about the last years of Oscar Wilde's life. He describes it as a "snakes and ladders" effort, repeatedly nearly there, only to be swallowed by a snake and slithering back down to square one.
Rupert Everett was in Another Country, about two gay boys at an English public school, and is probably best remembered for his role in the hilarious My Best Friend's Wedding, starring with Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz.
He seems to see himself as something of a has-been queen – referring occasionally to when he was a "real" Hollywood star – although his impressive resume on his Wikipedia entry belies this.
Famously gay, he thought a film about Oscar Wilde would be welcomed by the LGBTQ world and that the money to make it with would pour in. He wrote the script, put himself forward as the director and star, and then began the effort of finding an investor or three.
People show interest, and then drop out. Everyone thinks the script is great, but then it turns out no one's actually read it. One potential investor says he's keen, but wants someone else to direct it. Everett refuses, and looks back on this decision as a big mistake. At least the movie would have been made.
In the meantime Everett follows in Wilde's footsteps around Europe, particularly Naples, where he spent his last years in exile. Everett finds the house he lived in, almost unrecognisable among heaps of modern buildings. He meets some wonderful and strange people, and acts in a TV series The Musketeers, and a film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Eventually a pair of Germans sign up, with funding from a German film board, provided half the Wilde movie is set in Bavaria. This was not where Wilde went, but locations are found and a plan is made.
And so – eventually – is the film. Which more or less bombs. Joan Collins comes to the screening by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where Everett is told they've got a great crowd for a Sunday, but it turns out there's hardly anyone there.
Afterwards Everett says to Collins: "I feel sorry for anyone sitting behind you in that hat."
She replies: "Darling. There wasn't anyone sitting behind me."
The LGBTQ community, on whom Everett had pinned his hopes, was uninterested. "We didn't even register. Possibly I was the wrong type of queen… I couldn't even get an interview with Out Magazine."
And yet, like the trouper he is, Everett goes on. He made the film, he gets more work, and he writes wryly, self-deprecatingly and often hilariously of the process in this memoir (which is in fact his third). I enjoyed it a great deal.
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David Bristow 15th Nov 2020 at 7:13 am
I read, I think, his first – basically his salad days, bio and it was charming. Being gay in upper crust England 60s and 70s was apparently no hardship as, say, it would have been in, say, Vereeneging (as was a good friend of mine). Funny to learn he is younger then I.


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tauxCirconscriptionsEnAvance Indicates the percentage of electoral divisions in which the political party is leading.
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iso8601DateMAJ Contains the last update in ISO 8601 format of statistics for this electoral division.
isResultatsFinaux Is « true » if the results are final or is « false » if otherwise.
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Country singer Dylan Scott and his wife have a way to keep their marriage strong.
The pair, who started dating when they were teenagers in high school, have come up with marriage guidelines.
"We've been together for a long time, since we were kids, so she's known what I've wanted to do," Scott told Fox News. "I can be gone for two to four weeks and we'll be OK. I don't know how she does it, but she does."
Scott and his wife have figured out how to handle the long distance. But one issue the two tackle is the temptations that come along with being a country star.
"As far as... videos goes, she's not the craziest about that so I respect that," he said of his decision not to allow anything too romantic between him and female co-stars for his music videos.
The 26-year-old is crazy about his high school sweetheart. He even wrote his single about her.
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The smart Combi Protect GPS tracker locates dogs and valuables
Connected vehicles – CarConnect is kitting out cars with internet access
Easier and intelligent parking throughout Germany with Park and Joy
Magenta SmartHome reassures users that everything at home is safe and sound
Our everyday lives are becoming increasingly digital. Connected products make our leisure time more convenient, our lives safer, and our day-to-day work more efficient.
At IFA, Deutsche Telekom will be showcasing smart consumer solutions based on the Internet of Things (IoT) under the banner of Magenta Connected Life. They connect online users with everything that is important to them such as their dog, car or home.
Combi Protect – tracking and tracing canine runaways
It's always a moment of great panic when you lose your dog, handbag or suitcase. Deutsche Telekom is now providing quick and easy reassurance in these situations with Combi Protect. Thanks to this GPS tracker and its matching app, it is possible to pinpoint the location of pets or luggage on a smartphone. If they wish, Deutsche Telekom customers can track movements in real time. But to make sure nothing gets lost in the first place, app users can set a safe zone by placing a digital fence around their garden, for instance. As long as their furry friend or suitcase stays within this zone, everything is fine. But should it step outside the boundaries, the tracker ensures the smartphone automatically alerts the owner, thereby enabling them to take immediate action.
A Smart Connect S plan is required for customer wishing to use the Combi Protect tracker. This plan is available to both new and existing customers for 4.95 euros per month and features a minimum subscription period of six months. The tracker can be purchased for the one-off price of one euro as of September 10.
Clever cars thanks to CarConnect
The CarConnect adapter from Deutsche Telekom and its matching smartphone app transform cars manufactured in 2006 or later into connected vehicles. To do so, the adapter is plugged into the car's on-board diagnostics (OBD-II) port. CarConnect analyzes the vehicle's data such as battery charge level and error codes, notifies the user if it is stolen or is being jostled, and allows them to see their vehicle's location in real time. Customers can access Deutsche Telekom's LTE network by placing their SIM card into the CarConnect adapter, which functions as a Wi-Fi hotspot and thereby enables drivers to surf and stream on the go. The adapter can connect up to five devices to the internet at the same time.
To use the adapter, customers must take out the CarConnect plan priced from 9.95 euros, which offers 10 GB of data across the EU including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The CarConnect adapter itself costs a one-off charge of 39.95 euros.
Deutsche Telekom will be showcasing two new applications for the CarConnect adapter at IFA. For example, from the start of October, users will be able to get in touch with the ADAC automobile association with just a few clicks if they get a flat tire or have an accident, with CarConnect automatically sending their current location. And from the end of 2018, customers will be able to control Magenta SmartHome from their vehicle via the CarConnect app, automatically activating specific settings as they arrive or set off in their car, thereby making sure their home is just the way they want it.
Park and Joy soon available in 28 cities
Tracking down an empty parking space in the city center is never easy, meaning drivers are all the more delighted when they find a spot quickly. The Park and Joy app from Deutsche Telekom shows users available parking spaces in their chosen area and navigates them directly to the spot. What's more, drivers can pay for parking charges via the smartphone app in just two clicks. Park and Joy can already be used in Hamburg and Bonn. By the end of 2018, however, 28 cities will benefit from smartphone-assisted parking, with further cities already showing interest.
This new app enables drivers to reserve their parking spot for the exact number of minutes they need and subsequently shorten or lengthen that time – without needing to return to their car. Park and Joy is available for iOS and Android from the App Store or Google Play. Basic plan users pay a service fee of 19 cents each time they park, with Comfort plan customers charged a fixed rate of 1.99 euros per month. The parking fee charged by the city is payable on top. For more information visit www.parkandjoy.com
Magenta SmartHome makes smart living easier and safer
Besides saving energy and making life more comfortable, smart home devices can also deter intruders and make your home safer in other ways. The Sense water sensor from Grohe, for example, alerts homeowners before a water leak causes serious damage – even if they're out and about.
The SoundTouch music system from BOSE can now be connected to Magenta SmartHome, too. In addition to enjoying excellent sound quality within their own four walls, homeowners can set the system's loudspeakers to play noises while they're away. Together with other smart devices, the system therefore gives the impression that someone is home. If Magenta SmartHome sets off an alarm indoors, these connected speakers double up as a loud siren.
Deutsche Telekom has adopted a selection of devices from both new partners into its own range. The water sensor from Grohe, for instance, will be available from www.smarthome.de from October. More than 120 devices are already available on Deutsche Telekom's SmartHome portal. The SoundTouch 10, 20 and 30 loudspeakers from BOSE can be purchased in Telekom shops.
Long-standing partners eQ-3 and Miele are also expanding the Magenta SmartHome portfolio with other new devices. Over 300 appliances from various manufacturers are already compatible with the Qivicon platform and can be controlled using Magenta SmartHome. New devices are automatically recognized, which makes incorporating them into smart homes even easier.
Devices are becoming increasingly user-friendly for homeowners, too. In the future, the Smart Speaker from Deutsche Telekom will see smart homes obey every command, with homeowners able to control the lighting and temperature throughout the house with voice control. The Smart Speaker can also switch on any combination of electrical appliances. A single command is all it takes and this smart loudspeaker can change the whole atmosphere in the house.
Visit Deutsche Telekom's booth in hall 21a at the IFA trade show in Berlin from August 31 until September 5 to experience our products and services live. Deutsche Telekom's entire presence at the trade fair is carbon-neutral – all CO2 emissions generated in setting up and operating the booth are fully offset by carbon-reduction projects abroad.
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Time to Step Up Efforts to Protect Children from Climate Change
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This American Academy of Pediatrics Voices Blog, authored by Dr. Jerome Paulson, brings attention to the harm that climate change has on the health of children.
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Netflix Helps Drive the Creative Vision with High-Dynamic-Range Content
December 22, 2019 Jay Holben
At top, in a frame representative of the show's complex "naturalism," FBI investigators plot in the second season of Mindhunter.
Some might consider high-dynamic-range (HDR) television a technology of the future, but millions of viewers are already enjoying it. At the forefront of HDR broadcast is Netflix, the streaming and production giant, which reports that roughly a quarter of the devices used to access its service monthly — more than 165 million — are configured for HDR. As a result, Netflix is making a concerted effort to provide HDR content and currently has more than 1,000 hours of such programming available.
One of these titles is David Fincher's gritty, period procedural Mindhunter, which earned Christopher Probst, ASC an ASC Award nomination for its pilot in 2017. The series is photographed by Erik Messerschmidt, who notes that production incorporated HDR into the second season. "With Mindhunter, we try to be very subtle with the photography," says Messerschmidt. "The story and themes of the show are complex and nuanced, so it's really important that the photography never draws attention to itself. HDR helps because it enables me to be very subtle in my use of color and contrast, particularly in the toe of the exposure. Everyone likes to talk about the bright whites in HDR, but I think perhaps the added range in the shadows is more interesting and more important than added range in the highlights.
"I want all the choices available to me so that when appropriate, I can saturate a color or blow out a window. Having the added range is to our benefit, but it's also our responsibility to use it to tell the story." — Erik Messerschmidt
Erik Messerschmidt
"I think cinematographers have always advocated for a better experience for the audience, whether it's fast film stocks with tighter grain, better projection technology, or higher quality digital-capture and display technologies," he continues. "HDR is just another step in that direction. Standard-dynamic-range video distribution can only show a narrow exposure band of the modern digital sensor's dynamic range. The opportunity to use more of the sensor's range when we want to is a very exciting development."
Messerschmidt says finishing in HDR allows him more choices in terms of exposure and lighting. "I use an HDR reference display when I'm shooting and monitor in Dolby PQ and Rec. 2020. In my mind, it's a totally different format with different exposure parameters and lighting requirements. The added color gamut is particularly exciting, as I can be very subtle and controlled in my use of color, particularly the secondaries. I also find I use a lot less fill because I can more comfortably expose to the right given the added range in the highlights."
Messerschmidt, a former gaffer, observes that with HDR, he is much less worried about highlight retention, especially bright background windows. "When I monitor — and therefore finish — in HDR, I can very comfortably expose to just hold the exact level of highlight detail I want and then light the set as needed. This typically results in a lot less fill light. I feel I can work fast and with more gestural choices than I was [doing] in SDR. It has also changed my experience in DI, as we've been grading our HDR delivery first [and then] trimming the HDR grade to SDR. That's generally much easier than stretching an SDR grade to fit inside the larger HDR package; it never quite looks right when it's done that way.
"I think the opportunity for choice doesn't necessitate acting on those choices," Messerschmidt notes. "For example, just because I can put my highlights [to appear at] 1,000 nits [peak white on a display] doesn't mean I need to. In fact, in most cases, I don't want to. In Rec. 709 video, we often exposed the set in terms of maximizing the dynamic range of the image because the window is so small, so our practicals and windows all ended up at the top of the curve. Now that we have more range, I can put my practicals at [an exposure level that hits] 300-400 nits [on a display] and then put a background window at 800. The audience senses the environment is lit by the practicals while simultaneously recognizing that the background window is substantially brighter. That's something I never felt we could accomplish in SDR effectively."
That approach to HDR might be counterintuitive for filmmakers who presume the technology is for "bright" and "colorful" images, as well as for others who fear filmmakers will push the limits of 1,000 nits to a point that might be uncomfortable or even painful for an audience to watch. Messerschmidt says that is not how he and Fincher approach HDR for Mindhunter. "Good cinematography is fundamentally about applying taste to one's work," says the cinematographer. "Just because we have access to a wider color gamut and dynamic range doesn't mean we have to use it. The Dutch masters had access to all the paint colors of the time but made fundamental creative choices about what to use in their palettes and what to exclude. The choice here is the same. I want all the choices available to me so that when appropriate, I can saturate a color or blow out a window. Having the added range is to our benefit, but it's also our responsibility to use it to tell the story. The advent of HDR is fundamentally no different than the introduction of three-strip Technicolor, Kodak Vision film stocks or digital projection."
For its original programming, Netflix stipulates a minimum requirement for camera technology, especially sensor-photosite count, but the company's approach to HDR vis-à-vis production is more creatively driven. Netflix executives make no demands regarding dynamic range, brightness values, contrast reproduction, etc. Instead, they leave the implementation of HDR up to the filmmakers. Because so many Netflix viewers are watching on HDR monitors, the company does mandate an HDR finish because it wants to ensure the filmmaker's creative intent is properly presented in that format.
"We are passionate about providing filmmakers with the widest possible canvas," says Jimmy Fusil, Netflix's director of creative technologies and infrastructure. "HDR offers more creative opportunities, better fidelity to creative intent and a more immersive and authentic viewing experience for our members. We'll continue to work closely with filmmakers to make it a productive and seamless part of their creative process."
Netflix has made substantive efforts to support the cinematography community and has a strong presence on the committees and projects of the ASC's Motion Imaging Technology Council (MITC).
"Netflix is a very big supporter of what we do on MITC and of our accomplishments," says MITC Chair Curtis Clark, ASC. "Their intention, especially with HDR, is to have a better understanding of the technology to better support the creative intent of the filmmakers — to better expand the visual canvas, which also includes 4K and wide-color-gamut images. Netflix is one of the savvier companies, and it's at the forefront of the incorporation of ACES, HDR, high-resolution images and wide color gamut. They are involved with our various committees and have been very positive and constructive contributors to our efforts."
A shot from the experimental Netflix short Meridian, directed by Curtis Clark, ASC and photographed in HDR by Markus Förderer, ASC, BVK.
In fact, in 2016, Netflix engaged Clark to write and direct the short film Meridian, photographed by Markus Förderer, ASC, BVK, as a proof of technology and test bed for developments in HDR presentation. The short can be streamed in HDR on the service and illustrates how the technology can be used as a storytelling component.
Clark authored a white paper for filmmakers on the use of HDR that can be viewed here.
The current state of cinematography is indeed bright — at least 1,000 nits, if not more.
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